Chapter 1469 — The Yu Family Arrives
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There were things Wei Zhao did not wish to look back upon. Thinking of his former self, he sometimes felt a pang of emotion. The hidden families, was it... Those who had once seemed so lofty and remote — and now several of those families had become his enemies, perhaps even including the hidden Yu family!
Though Elder Yu did not know that he was Wei Zhao, with the affair of the mundane Yu family standing as it did, the hidden Yu family might well choose to intervene.
Wei Zhao stood where he was and did not move. The man had clearly caught sight of him as well; he started slightly, and paying no heed to those beside him, came striding over toward Wei Zhao!
"Yu Bing. It has been a long time," Wei Zhao said with a faint smile to the newcomer.
"You... what are you doing here too? Are you here for the Ice Palace trial as well?" Yu Bing found it almost inconceivable; he could not understand why Wei Zhao should appear in this place!
"Once you have checked in, come and find me. I am in room 201 — Ling Yi." Wei Zhao reminded him of the name at the last, trusting that Yu Bing would understand.
"Very well, then. I will see you shortly, Brother Ling!" Yu Bing nodded and took his temporary leave of Wei Zhao.
Given his ties through Yu Ning, it was only natural that he should address Wei Zhao as brother; this was no presumption on his part. After all, if matters went as they might, Wei Zhao would be his brother-in-law — and what sense would there be in calling one's brother-in-law elder brother?
Wei Zhao nodded, then quickly entered the inn and went upstairs.
Just then Yu Shan came over as well. Glancing at Wei Zhao's receding back, he said in that sneering, insinuating way of his: "Well, well — who would have thought my eldest brother had such ability? Barely arrived, and he has already roped in an ally?"
"A friend I made while out training in the past." Yu Bing clearly had no mind to introduce much to Yu Shan. Yu Shan and he were not of the same kind; how could he possibly tell him Wei Zhao's true identity?
"Truly admirable, the son of a family head — he even gets to go out and train, while the rest of us can only stew inside the clan. If not for this trial, I would not know in what year or month I might ever get out!" Yu Shan said, curling his lip.
Behind Yu Shan's car was the car of the hidden Pi family; they had met along the road. Behind them came several others from other hidden families and sects, but Pi Zhifeng and Pi Zhitao had never seen Wei Zhao in person, having only heard his name, and so at this moment they did not suspect that the man before them was Wei Zhao.
Watching the Yu family's juniors, who had begun sniping at one another the moment they reached the inn, Pi Zhifeng let a trace of mocking amusement rise to the corner of his mouth. By comparison, he and Pi Zhitao got along far better — Pi Zhitao had his heart set on cultivation and no mind at all for clan affairs.
Against Yu Shan's barbs and sneers, Yu Bing was utterly helpless. Who could help it that the younger generation of the Yu family were all so outstanding? It was a blessing for a clan — and a tragedy as well. Brothers scheming against one another would drag the family down toward ruin.